Video Analysis of Parent-Child Interactions in Behavioral Sleep Disorders: Development of a Scoring Algorithm.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Behavioral sleep disorders, including chronic insomnia (CI), are generally assessed by subjective parent interview. However, evidence suggests that parental report of children's overnight behaviors is unreliable, perhaps due to recall bias or confusion due to sleep deprivation. Video technology has been used clinically to capture complex behavioral disorders in children during the day. However, there is no standardized means of analyzing child and parent behavior at bedtime or during the night. We aimed to create an algorithm for this purpose. Methods: Child brain tumor survivors (a population previously shown to have a high prevalence of CI) were screened for difficulties initiating and maintaining sleep using sub-scales from the Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children. Those w

SUBMITTER: Galbraith L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6882929 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature